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Helios Creed once asked me to keep an eye on Tommy Grenas to keep him from drinking too much prior to a set.
Years ago, Moe's (club on Capitol Hill, now the site of Neumo's) had a beat-up old upright piano in the lobby. Once, while waiting for a Nik Turner show to start, an old scruffy guy who basically looked like some drunk-ass homeless dude (long ratty hair, sloppy clothes, wife-beater) wandered over to me and asked me in a thick English accent, "So, do yeh know how to play the pianah?" I replied in the negative, and he proceeded to slump down at the keyboard...and then started playing gorgeous ambient music. Turns out it was Del Dettmar.
A couple years prior to that, I once had a table with a good sightline to the stage at RCKCNDY where Nik Turner was doing the Seattle show on the "Space Ritual 1994" tour. The folks from Sky Cries Mary joined me and basically spent the duration of the show muttering "My god--I wish we could do this..." (FTR, Anisa Romero is incredibly beautiful in person.)
I once spent the duration of a Psychic TV show (the PTV3 incarnation) standing behind Carla Torgerson (of the Walkabouts) to keep her from getting crushed by the crowd (she's really petite). After the show, Lady Jaye (RIP--Genesis P-Orridge's wife) gave me a souvenir drumstick.
I've bought drinks for Jesse Sykes a couple of times after shows while she was manning the merch table. She's a sweetie.
Similarly, I've briefly chatted with any number of other local Seattle musicians.
I hung out with Len Del Rio in the Crocodile Cafe prior to the set where he was one of the backing musicians for Damo Suzuki.
Rachel Flotard (of Visqueen) (she is awesome) once gave me a discount at Sonic Boom Records because I happened to be wearing a Visqueen t-shirt and she was working there that day.
Robert Roth once sold me a bunch of '60s Turkish music as well as a copy of one of his own CDs.
I chatted with Brandon and Benjamin Curtis a couple of times after Secret Machines shows. They were both really nice, especially Benjamin (who asked me for recommendations of music he should check out), but Josh Garza was pretty full of himself.
I chatted with Brian and Amanda of the Dresden Dolls after their first Seattle show (after running into them in the men's room of the Croc as they were applying makeup prior to the set). Amanda was mobbed by teenage goth girls, so Brian and I just hung out for a while as we waited for the crowd to thin out. At one point, one of the teenage goth girls approached him, but was kinda tongue-tied, so I suggested that he provide a couple of recommendations for other music she should check out. In the same breath, he suggested some hardcore punk band and Hoagie Carmichael.
I once spent the evening dancing with Mary Lou Lord during a Wayne Hancock set. She's short and very cute.
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